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That means Magnotta could be returned to Canada as early as this week. The Canadian Embassy in Berlin declined to comment on when Ottawa may file the official papers seeking extradition.

The arrest took place in an
area of the German capital known for its gay bars and sordid sex joints.

It is unclear where Magnotta stayed in Berlin between Saturday morning and his arrest on Monday lunchtime. Police have said he stayed with ‘a friend’ – but whether that is someone he contacted during his brief time in the city, or someone he knew from old, remains unknown.

The manhunt
began after Magnotta allegedly murdered
and dismembered his former gay lover Jun Lin, 33 in his flat in
Montreal on the night of May 24.

The university student’s torso was
found in the apartment while parts of his body were posted to political
offices in Ottawa.

As well as the killing, Magnotta faces charges of threatening Canada’s prime minister after sending a severed foot to his Conservative party headquarters. A hand sent to the Liberal party of Canada was found last Tuesday.

A
ten-minute videotape purporting to record the horrific crime was posted
online, showing a man stabbing his naked and bound victim with an ice
pick.

The video, entitled One Lunatic, One Ice Pick, was set to the soundtrack from American Psycho, earning the suspect his nickname.

The attacker then hacks him to pieces and eats part of his flesh. He is also seen performing sexual acts on the corpse.

One member of the investigative team said the murderer ‘tears the victim apart like a doll’.

Other unsolved murder cases from across Canada were being reopened to see if they may be linked to Magnotta.

On the day he was finally arrested,
cafe owner Uelkue Sungur said Magnotta had Googled his own name and
searched for details of the police's desperate attempts to track him
down, including those on the Interpol website. He had also read news stories about himself.

Arrival: 'Canadian Psycho' Luka Rocco Magnotta strolls up to the internet cafe in Berlin's Neukoelln district

Casual: Magnotta walks through the door of the internet cafe. The
29-year-old Canadian porn actor is accused of killing his lover and
mailing body parts to Canada's major political parties

Identification: Magnotta speaks to cafe worker Kadir Anlayisli, who said he recognised him after reading the papers

Wait: Kadir Anlayisli, anxiously waits for the arrival of the police as Magnotta sits at a computer terminal inside the cafe

Raid: Armed police storm into the shop after the cool-headed cafe worker quietly informed the authorities of Magnotta's whereabouts

Arrest: Magnotta is led away by police. According to the internet cafe owner he had been looking-up news articles about himself

Internet Cafe: The Spatkauf cafe in Neukoelln, a suburb of Berlin, where Magnotta was arrested

Witness: Kadir Anlayisli recognised Magnotta at the cafe and called police

He had also looked at nude images of himself, apparently on his own website or email, during his short time in the Berlin cafe.

Just after 11am on Monday Magnotta, clean-shaven and wearing jeans, sunglasses and a black jacket with a hood, strolled into the Helin Tele and Internet Cafe on Karl-Marx-Strasse in the working class Neukoelln district of the German capital.

While he was browsing the images, the owner of the Berlin coffee bar waved down a police car.

Within minutes, seven police vehicles with a squad of heavily-armed officers stormed into the cafe
where Magnotta was pinned to the floor and handcuffed without offering
any resistance.

Eyewitnesses said armed officers asked the suspect ‘Are you the wanted man?’ and he responded ‘You got me.'

A man at the internet cafe who
described himself as the ‘boss’ but who would not give his name said: ‘Then the cops came and it was all over for him.

‘It
all happened very quickly, in a blur. Everyone is beating a path to my
door. But the police have told me not to say too much.’

The porn star and male escort was held overnight at the HQ of the state police and later transferred to a cell at a Berlin prison.

He will have to go before a German court for an extradition hearing once Canada formally requests that he be returned for trial.

‘I assume there will be no problems,’ German police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf said. ‘According to his statements to prosecutors he will not fight his extradition.’

The
arrest brought to an end an international trawl spanning thousands of
miles and hundreds of police officers across two continents.

Magnotta was said to be ‘nervous and crying’ as he fled Canada on a flight to Paris, eyewitnesses revealed.

Two fellow passengers have revealed how they sat alongside the Canadian psychopath on an Air Transat flight from Montreal to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport on May 26.

One man told France’s Europe 1 radio: ‘He was tall, thin, androgynous, with shoulder-length hair, with a bit of a look of a teenager. He seemed dirty and did not smell very good.

‘He was nervous during the flight. He was clearly hiding his face. At one he point he disappeared and I got worried because we’re all a bit paranoid on flights, and I thought “He’s put a bomb in the toilets”.

‘But the stewardess reassured me by saying no, he wasn’t feeling well and I turned around and saw that he was crying.'

Magnotta, who has worked as a
bisexual porn star and a gay prostitute called Angel and often dresses
as a woman, fled to France on May 26.

Police have reluctantly admitted
their suspect, who has also used aliases Eric Clinton Newman (his birth
name) and Vladimir Romanov, should have been stopped on arrival at
Charles de Gaulle airport.

But instead he passed through customs unchallenged and was able to spend several day at large in the French capital. Witnesses came, claiming to have
spotted him in the trendy Bastille district in the east of Paris.

Parisian officers said the suspected
killer stayed for two nights with a gay man he met in a nightclub before
his terrified host spotted his photo on the internet.

Most wanted: Two undated photographs of the suspected killer which were released by Interpol

Closing the net: Interpol had notified authroities in 190 countries to be on the lookout for Luka Magnotta, who was arrested in Germany on Monday

One bar owner told police: 'He came into my bar and sat drinking and chatting. He seemed very excited.'

A police source said another man had
put Magnotta up in his flat for two nights early last week after meeting
him in a gay nightclub.

The police source said: 'After he left, the man realised who he had had staying and contacted us.

'It is then thought he went out in
the evenings drinking in the Bastille district and staying in a cheaper
hotel in the east of the city.'

A receptionist at a four-star hotel near the Champs-Elysees also said she believed Magnotta had stayed there the same night. The Paris police source said: 'She later identified him from a photo.'

Police eventually traced Magnotta,
who had had plastic surgery to look more like James Dean - through
mobile phone calls and closed in on the hotel where he was stayed. But
he had left before officers arrived.

Some of his belongings – including
pornographic magazines and air sickness bags - were recovered from the
room and are undergoing DNA testing.

It is unclear how Magnotta managed to
slip through the net, despite Interpol having issued a Red Notice
wanted-persons alert to its 190 member countries last Thursday.

But he was next seen calmly boarding a
Eurolines bus at Bagnolet coach station in the eastern suburbs of the
French capital at 7.30pm on Friday night.

Sightings: Witnesses say they saw a person matching Magnotta's description at Parisian bars, such as Le Petit Batignolles bar. Police in the French capital had lost Magnotta before he turned up in Germany

Victim: Jun Lin, 33, was a Chinese student who had moved to Montreal to study. He dated Magnotta

Hotel raid: The La Soummam hotel in Bagnolet, outside Paris, in which fugitive Luka Magnotta was believed to be staying. He fled before police arrived

Despite Magnotta buying a $130 ticket
for the journey – and the fact the station is covered by 20 CCTV
cameras – police did not trace his escape route until three days on.

He arrived in Berlin 14 hours after
boarding the service at 9.15am on Saturday and managed to avoid
detection until Monday.

He will face a range of charges,
including murder, defiling a corpse, threatening the Canadian prime
minister and using the mail system for delivering 'obscene, indecent,
immoral or scurrilous' material.

During Magnotta’s time on the run, he
spent time on the computer playing war games and also made a number of
disturbing postings.

Once included a short animation that
involved a bloody hand print and the phrase 'It was Luka Magnotta'.
Police said he was enjoying his notoriety.

Six months ago, Magnotta was living
in a $60-a-night room above the Fusilier Inn in Wembley, north London,
while sightseeing in the capital.

He was confronted by journalists after posting an Internet film showing a live kitten being fed to a snake. In an email to The Sun in December,
he supposedly said: ‘You will be hearing from me again. This time,
however, the victims won’t be small animals.’ He sent a similar warning
to the BBC.

At the same time, he appears to be
denying that he is the person in the kitten-killing videos, writing on
his own website: ‘Once and for all, I will set the record straight. Many
hoax websites are created using my image and name, posing as me to seem
more believable...

'I feel I don't need to list them
specifically but people need not be told, not to believe what they read
and to take it as fact.’

Magnotta is said to have once dated Karla Homolka, a notorious Canadian sex killer who slaughtered schoolgirls.

FROM THE ANGEL TO CANADIAN PSYCHO, HOW LUKA MAGNOTTA BECAME THE WORLD'S MOST WANTED

The murder suspect dubbed the
'Canadian Psycho' has worked as a bisexual porn star, as a gay
prostitute called 'Angel,' and is an alleged kitten killer with a string
of fraud convictions.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, accused of
chopping up his lover and filming the attack before mailing body parts
to a series of addresses in Canada, was arrested on Monday in Berlin
after initially fleeing to Paris and setting off an international
manhunt.

In addition to having had plastic
surgery on his face -- apparently to look more like James Dean -- he
often wears lipstick and make-up, has dyed his hair and worn wigs, and
sometimes dresses up as a woman.

Changeable image: Police suspected that Magnotta was disguising himself
as a woman to evade capture, having been on the run for almost two
weeks. A sketch of what he may look like was released

The Fusilier Pub in Wembley, North London, where Luka Manotta has previously stayed

Described as handsome but
narcissistic, the 29-year-old, who naturally has black hair and blue
eyes, has also changed his name and used several aliases.

He was convicted under his birth name
Eric Clinton Newman for defrauding several retailers and with stealing
$16,900 from a woman in Toronto, culminating in a suspended sentence and
probation in 2005.

A series of judge imposed conditions
reportedly banned him from owning or using a camera or a computer, and
from accessing the Internet.

Born in Toronto, family members told reporters they lost contact with him some time ago.

For years Magnotta built a profile
through blogs, escort adverts in which he searched online for sex
partners, and posted photographs showing himself as a trim, pouty-lipped
model whose travels included Paris and other cities.

He used the name 'Angel' when working
as a prostitute and stripper at Remington's, a well-known gay bar in
Toronto, according to transsexual performer Nina Arsenault, who claims
to have had a relationship with him.

The one-time supporter of white
supremacists posted a video online of two kittens being suffocated in a
plastic bag, according to the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, ending an online
hunt for the so-called 'Vacuum Kitten Killer.'

Friendly: This video, posted online two years ago, shows a man who looks like Magnotta appearing to be caring for the cats (he disguised his face)

Sickening: The thug places both of the cats inside a plastic bag and films them suffocating

At the same time, profiles he
reputedly posted on online dating services conveyed an altogether
different persona -- on one website he listed beach volleyball as a
hobby and stated that finding a long-term relationship was his priority.

He was granted a license to work as a stripper in Toronto in 2005 and also worked as a male escort.Pierre
Bonhomme, a Canadian filmmaker who recalled a meeting with Magnotta in
Toronto in 2007 or 2008, told the Ottawa Citizen it was a 'creepy'
experience that he quickly decided to escape from.

'I left within about five minutes. It
was a really uncomfortable, awkward situation. He was in the shady,
druggy, gay-sex prostitution world. He was on a lot of the gay hookup
sites,' Bonhomme said.

Magnotta used Russian names,
including the alias Vladimir Romanov, on such sites, according to
Bonhomme, who also attested to the suspect's willingness to use fraud
and deception.

'He was a hustler,' Bonhomme said.
'He was definitely not a gay village kind of guy. He was more of a
suburban guy on the Internet, scamming married guys, that kind of
thing.'

Psychologist Gilles Chamberland told
Radio Canada that Magnotta exudes 'narcissistic, anti-social,'
behaviour, having described himself as being 'incredibly beautiful.'

In 2009, he ironically posted advice on the Internet about how to vanish and never be found.

'A minimum of four months is really
necessary to carry out the heroic actions necessary to leave your old
life behind,' he reportedly wrote.

He said a person must withdraw from
all social circles, possess two sets of false identification papers,
convert all assets to cash and then take a bus to a chosen destination,
after selling a car somewhere else to mislead police.

Magnotta did not do such a good job
of staging his own disappearance: investigators believe he boarded a
France-bound plane on May 26 in Montreal and police traced his cell
phone signal to the suburb of Bagnolet, Paris on Saturday.